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My Neighbour Totoro (1988) colour palette

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki · Shot by Hisao Shirai

My Neighbour Totoro (1988), shot by Hisao Shirai, runs natural and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and green. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2d302e), covering 6.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.272 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.361 — more saturated than 86% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.484 — brighter than 90% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the My Neighbour Totoro page →

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